On This Week in Sport & Leisure History ~ 19-25th August 2019
19th The Weisshorn was first climbed today in 1861 by the Irish physicist John Tyndall,...
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Author: Margaret Roberts
On This Week in Sport & Leisure History
12th-18th August 2019
~ Olympics ~
12th Today in 1928 the IX Summer Olympic Games closed in Amsterdam On this day at the 1936 Games,...
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On This Week in Sport & Leisure History
5th August 2019
Athletics
5th In 1901 Peter O’Connor of Ireland, sets the first officially recognised world long jump...
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On This Week in Sport & Leisure History
29th July~4th August 2019
29th The most famous bowls match in history took place on this day in 1588, or so legend has it....
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On this Week in Sport & Leisure History ~ 22nd-28th July 2019
22nd Cosmo Duff-Gordon, was born on this day in 1862. A prominent Scottish landowner and...
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